After dinner, the three of them returned to the family compound.
In the middle of the night, Yu Xiangnian heard some noise outside the house in his sleep. He got up and opened the door, and saw Cheng Jingmo rummaging through the drawers in the main room, looking for something.
"What are you looking for in the middle of the night?" Yu Xiangnian asked in a daze.
"I bought some medicine a few days ago. Xiaojie has a fever."
"Did you take your temperature?"
“No amount.”
Yu Xiangnian then remembered that there was no thermometer at home, so she said, "I'll go in and take a look."
She walked into the room and saw Xiaojie covered up tightly, with only his head exposed, and his face was burning red.
She reached out and touched his forehead. He must have a high fever, estimated to be around 39 degrees.
Burned like this, and still covered with a blanket?!
She lifted the quilt and saw that Xiaojie's neck was covered in sweat. When she touched it, she found that his clothes were half wet with sweat.
She said to Cheng Jingmo who came in later, "Hurry up and get a basin of warm water."
Cheng Jingmo said, "Cover him with the quilt and he'll be fine after he sweats out."
"The child's fever is so high, you need to lower it first. If you keep covering him like this, you'll burn his brain!"
Cheng Jingmo murmured in his heart, don't people who have a fever just cover themselves up and sweat it out? But he subconsciously still believed in Yu Xiangnian, so he went to get a basin of warm water.
At this time, Yu Xiangnian had already taken off Xiaojie's clothes. She picked up the towel in the basin, wrung out the water, and began to wipe Xiaojie's body.
"Cheng Jingmo, find a set of clothes."
After wiping his whole body twice, Xiaojie's temperature dropped a little and he regained consciousness. "Aunt, I have a headache and a sore throat."
"Open your mouth, let me see." Yu Xiangnian saw that both sides of Xiaojie's throat were red and swollen.
She soothed Xiaojie gently, "You have tonsillitis. Children often get this disease. It's normal to have a sore throat, headache, and fever. Take some medicine and drink plenty of water. You will be fine in a couple of days."
While Cheng Jingmo was dressing Xiaojie, Yu Xiangnian started to prepare medicine.
She said she was getting medicine, but in fact there were only two kinds of medicine at home, one was Analgin and the other was headache powder, which she bought at the health center that day.
She poured a large glass of warm water and asked Xiaojie to take half a packet of headache powder.
Xiaojie had a sore throat and refused to drink more water after taking medicine. Yu Xiangnian said, "If you drink this glass of water, I'll tell you a story. How about that?"
"I want to hear two!"
"Okay, okay, two."
Xiao Jie endured the pain and gulped down a large glass of water. Yu Xiangnian began to speak.
"Once upon a time there was a little girl. She was bald and could only wear a red hat every day, so everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood."
One day, Little Red Riding Hood went to deliver cakes to her grandmother. When she passed through the forest, she found a big bad wolf sneaking around in the bushes. Little Red Riding Hood yelled angrily, "Big bad wolf, I know it's you! Get out of here!" The big bad wolf ran away in fear.
"As Little Red Riding Hood walked, she saw the Big Bad Wolf hiding in the bushes again. Little Red Riding Hood said angrily again, 'Big Bad Wolf, I know it's you, get out here!' The Big Bad Wolf ran away again. Little Red Riding Hood continued walking forward and saw the Big Bad Wolf hiding in the bushes again. Little Red Riding Hood repeated what she had just said."
"This time, the Big Bad Wolf wasn't scared away. He jumped out of the bushes and ate Little Red Riding Hood in one gulp! Then he said, 'Now I can poop in peace!'"
After Yu Xiangnian finished speaking, he kept laughing to himself, while Xiaojie and Cheng Jingmo looked confused.
After a moment, the two of them started laughing too.
Then, Xiao Jie pouted, "That's not what you said last time! Last time you talked about Little Red Riding Hood who didn't like to take a bath and was very dirty, so everyone called her Cinderella. Cinderella had a stepmother who often beat her, so she stole away and disguised herself as a man to join the army, and later became Mulan!"
"Huh?" Now it was Yu Xiangnian's turn to look surprised.
In the first two days after she arrived, in order to build a good relationship with Xiaojie, she told him a lot of stories. They were all rambling and made up, and she had forgotten everything she said!
Yu Xiangnian waved his hand and said, "That's not important. There are many versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story. Last time I told you the inspirational version, and today I'll tell you the funny version! Come on, next story."
Yu Xiangnian thought about it and told him the story of Snow White seriously, which took seven or eight minutes from beginning to end.
After finishing his speech, Xiao Jie said with a sad face: "That's not what you said last time!"
"Huh?" Yu Xiangnian scratched his head and said, "What was I talking about last time?"
"Snow White's stepmother wanted to kill her, so she came up with a plan. She placed an apple on Snow White's head, and whoever shot the apple would marry her. The first person who shot the apple with an arrow said, 'I'm Hou Yi.' The second person shot the princess with an arrow, and he said, 'I'm sorry!'"
Yu Xiangnian chuckled, "Wow! You have a good memory. You even remember English."
She touched Xiaojie's forehead again, and his fever had temporarily subsided. "Okay, now that we've finished our two stories, it's time for you to go to bed."
Xiaojie lay down contentedly and fell asleep soon after.
Cheng Jingmo said, "You go to sleep, I'll take care of him."
Yu Xiangnian yawned. "He has acute tonsillitis. He'll have repeated fevers until the inflammation subsides. It's possible that he'll have a fever again in three or four hours. Don't cover him. When he has a fever, he needs to dissipate the heat. Once the fever subsides, cover him with a blanket to keep him warm."
"If he has a fever again, use the method I just used to lower his temperature and give him medicine again. We don't have any anti-inflammatory medicine at home, so I'll take him to the health center for an injection tomorrow morning."
After Yu Xiangnian finished speaking, he went back to his room to sleep.
Cheng Jingmo adopted a child himself, so he had to learn how to take care of a sick child.
Cheng Jingmo tossed and turned for most of the night and had no desire to sleep.
Yu Xiangnian just now made him feel at ease.
Xiaojie had a fever once before, so he gave Xiaojie an analgin pill and asked him to cover himself with a quilt to induce sweating.
But what Yu Xiangnian did just now was to dissipate heat, and he also said that taking Analgin should be as little as possible because it is not very safe.
This was the first time he heard of this. Everyone who had a headache or fever took this medicine, and it was quite effective.
Besides, he couldn't tell those stories.
When I think of the two stories just now, I can't help but laugh.
What kind of stories are these? They are really meant to fool children!
Sure enough, just as Yu Xiangnian expected, Xiaojie had a fever again in the second half of the night.
Cheng Jingmo followed Yu Xiangnian's instructions, wiped his body with warm water, changed his clothes, and gave him medicine.
When Yu Xiangnian woke up, Cheng Jingmo was no longer at home. The breakfast he got from the cafeteria was heating up on the honeycomb coal stove.
She went to Xiaojie's room and saw that he was still sleeping soundly.
After he woke up, the two of them had breakfast and went to the clinic.
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